Annie Kapur
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Book Review: "The Knot of Vipers" by François Mauriac
I'm not going to lie, more than often it is a title that draws me to a book and this one was quite intriguing because it didn't give anything away. The only thing I could figure out is that it wasn't going to be a romantic comedy or something along those lines. The Knot of Vipers is François Mauriac's novel written in the style of a confession, about a family falling apart and the members like 'vipers'. They deceive, they are poison to each other, they are hypocritical and selfish. All I can say is that this psychologically twisted novel was not quite what I was expecting but it was amazing nevertheless.
By Annie Kapur2 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Ageless" by Andrew Steele
Who loves cheap books they can read on their phone? I do. This book wasn't too expensive when I found it and well, I'm not going to lie when I say I'm not overtly interested in biology. HOWEVER, I am also aware that this book is an important read and so, I wanted to get in there. What happens when we have to confront ageing and all of the horrors that come with it? Well, if you're like me you normally turn to the fact that you don't feel like you're too old but you also have to admit that there are things you simply can't do anymore - things you used to do about ten or fifteen years' ago. Andrew Steele gets into the argument about why we should treat this concept, where our bodies work against us, rather than just looking at diseases we can see straight away. How do we cure ageing? Oh, and why should we?
By Annie Kapur2 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account" by Miklós Nyiszli
There's something really upsetting, something really emotional, about reading books regarding the experiences of those at the concentration camps during the Second World War. But this book is something else entirely. Miklós Nyiszli writes with such incredible amounts of this sadness, this incredibly dark emotion that we cannot help to be drawn into the book, no matter how disgusting and horrifying the subject matter. The man worked for and with the infamous Dr Mengele and was subjected to some gruesome sights. The even more horrific thing though was that the prisoners of the camp were obviously looking at him, recognising him and knowing that he too, was Jewish.
By Annie Kapur2 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "From Here to the Great Unknown" by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough
There are few things more embarrassing than having such a book covering the experiences of living with Elvis Presley on the day it came out and not reading it until *checks notes* yesterday. Basically, it's been little over a year since it's release. I'm not going to lie, I bought it on my phone and kind of forgot it was there until now and well, it isn't too long but it is definitely heartbreaking and beautiful. There are very few autobiographies I have enjoyed reading in my time, often being very choosy about which ones I spend my time with but I have to say, I can't believe I waited so long to read this one - it's fantastic.
By Annie Kapur2 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man" by Thomas Mann
“That's what people are like: they want talent, which is inherently peculiar, yet they absolutely don't want the peculiarities connected to it - perhaps necessarily bound up with it - which they refuse to understand or forgive.” - "Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man" by Thomas Mann
By Annie Kapur2 months ago in Geeks
Movie Review: "Fantastic Four" (2025)
(Note: it's an opinion, not a fact. If you enjoyed this film then that's fine by me. It's really not my thing though). Fantastic Four is a movie that has never done too well at the box office and if you're as old as I am then you probably remember the one from 2005 and hated it. You probably also remember the one from 2015 and hated that too and ultimately, the one in 2025 probably proves to us that this comic book is not very well-suited to the screen. Be that as it may, they keep making it over and over again, launching them into the new Marvel Cinematic Universe and preparing us for Doomsday. I'm not going to lie, this has to be one of the worst things I've ever wasted my time watching.
By Annie Kapur2 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time" by Will Durant
The 'Great Man' theory is a theory I don't believe in by any degree. For those of you who don't know what that is, it is basically where you state that these great men who have changed history have done so through them having some pre-conceived attributes and therefore, they have the ability and the responsibility to change the world for the better. Tolstoy's novels basically disprove the whole theory as do the novels of Dostoevsky and the fact that Hitler existed. Will Durant's book The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time may not limit itself to Western history, but it definitely only makes tokens of the Eastern world. I'm not sure how to put this lightly so I'm just going to say it: there's something deeply wrong with how these people have been chosen. Many of them have been selected on the basis of the subjectivity of 'changing the world' rather than actually enduring and changing anything at all. Some of them I agree with, but there are plenty that are perfectly replaceable as we will see.
By Annie Kapur2 months ago in Geeks
Movie Review: "Frankenstein" (2025)
This is a spoiler-free review - but seriously, how can you not know the story by now? So I've finally watched the new Frankenstein movie on Netflix and though I probably would have been better off seeing it in the cinema, I have to admit I haven't been to the cinema in a while. Reasons for not attending are between me and my broken brain at this moment in time - all will be revealed perhaps next year. Anyways, Frankenstein seems to be a popular story to adapt but not everyone can do it well. There are various adaptations that didn't try too hard to stick to the book and yet did very well, there are others that tried to stick to the book and did terribly. One thing I think all of the adaptations have in common though is that none of them are entirely a 5/5 production. Why? Well, man is that book wild! You simply cannot capture that insane atmosphere 100% on a screen. But, let's take a look anyways...
By Annie Kapur2 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Ending Up" by Kingsley Amis
About two years' ago, I thought I would try out a random novel by Kingsley Amis called The Old Devils and I was completely sold. Finally, a Kingsley Amis novel I could actually enjoy! After this, I definitely became more confident with my reading of this author because I'm not going to lie - I have read many more books by his son. I picked up a short book called Ending Up from a used bookstore recently and well, it's time to really get stuck in. I was surprised. I enjoyed it, and it was pretty much over before it even began - so you can imagine how short it was.
By Annie Kapur2 months ago in Geeks
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg) was published in 1924 after more than a decade of writing and revision. The original thought was to write a short story in 1912. It was inspired by Mann’s visit to a Swiss tuberculosis sanatorium where his wife was recovering, and the novel grew into a philosophical and symbolic epic, exploring themes of: time, illness, and the intellectual and ideological conflicts of pre-World War I Europe.
By Annie Kapur2 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "The Loved One" by Evelyn Waugh
Rereading Evelyn Waugh is definitely the flavour of the season and I am quite surprised that I didn't think about doing this earlier. So far, I've reread books like Scoop and A Handful of Dust among others. Today, it's The Loved One. Evelyn Waugh's wit never seeks to amaze me and to me, he is perhaps one of the greatest literary voices of the 20th century. It really is only Evelyn Waugh that can make such a great satire about America, across the ocean from us and probably further away back then. It is also really only Evelyn Waugh who can make a satire out of death. This has been one of my favourites to reread and now you'll see why...
By Annie Kapur2 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Fever Pitch" by Nick Hornby
I've never read anything by Nick Hornby before and the reason for that is because I didn't think his books were written for people like me. This is the same thing I was talking about in my review of Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey. I said that I didn't think I was the intended audience of the book and so, when it came to reading it - that was probably why I didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would. When it comes to Nick Hornby's books I definitely didn't think I was the intended audience. I despise football but I had to give it a chance. Let's have a look at how it went.
By Annie Kapur2 months ago in Geeks
